How to start Machine Learning career (ML)|Complete Career Guide

For the future prospect, machine learning is one hundred percent best career paths to choose. Are you want to start machine learning career path; to become a machine learning engineer. (Or) you are just seeking for the right career path to opt. But unfortunately, you have no idea of where can I start? How can I start a career in machine learning?

I want to ensure you will get every possible information regarding machine learning, which will be quite helpful to start your career with this vast technology.

After reading this post, you have a clear view of Machine Learning (ML) career path; and you can decide- is it right career path….or not?

You will get to know! About these things…

What is meant by Machine Learning?

What are the programming languages I should learn?

Nesseray education to start machine learning career path.

Skills and tools to start machine learning career?

What does a machine learning engineer do?

Which are the books are good for machine learning start reading?

Also, do not forget to check notes and tips on this Page.

So let’s start our journey with the most common and important question.

What is Machine Learning?

Machine learning is the domain of Computer Science that gives the ability to the electronics machine to learn without being programmed.

I want to clarify the meaning of “Not being programmed”.

The electronic machine is not being programmed to do the task, it learns from the scratch. That type of electronics machine we simply know as Artificial Intelligence.

In other words, Machine Learning Provide the data to the Artificial Intelligence to learn the things.

For example, like we humans learn from our past experience. Identically, machines are also able to learn from experience. But, for the machine’s data worked as an experience.

If you want to know more about the Artificial Intelligence then click here

Types of Machine Learning

Machine Learning typically divided into three categories. Therefore a machine can learn different and new things in the following three ways:

[1] Supervised Learning

You have to train your machine with every possible input with corresponding output.

The training process continues until the machine achieves the desired level of accuracy on the output.

After the sufficient amount of training with data, the machine can generate an output according to any new input. This method of learning is called as supervised machine learning.

Example of Supervised Learning is student-teacher relation. In other words, the teacher in the classroom teaches students every possible solution to the questions.

[2] Unsupervised Learning

In this learning process, we give only some sets of inputs to the machine.

After some sort of time machine is able to generate its own logic and structure between different inputs to solve the problems. That is called unsupervised machine learning.

Example of Unsupervised Learning is a friend to friend relation. Like one of your friends gives lots of advice to you. Then it’s up to you which advice you will apply to solve your problem.

[3] Reinforcement Learning

In this learning method, you only have to provide the task to the machine.

Machine try to solve this task on its own based on the previous experience. After achieving the task output, we give feedback to the machine that how good the decision was.

Machine stores that feedback on its memory, whether it is good or bad. The process of learning through rewards and recognition is known as reinforcement machine learning.

The best example of reinforcement learning is parents child relation. Whenever kid faces a new problem, the kid tries to take a decision on his own using past experiences. As parents, we appreciate the kid and tells him about the decision was right or wrong.

Education required to become a Machine Learning Engineer

Education 1 (Mandate): You must have completed your high school [Subjects must have: Maths, computer science] to start machine learning career path.

You can start entry-level jobs in machine learning but for this, you must have great machine learning skills.

Education 3 (Optional): Masters + PhD

Like most of the machine learning aspirants, you can join masters and PhD programmes in Data analysis related subjects. After completing Education 3, you definitely get more opportunities in machine learning industry.

Machine Learning Engineer should know these Algorithms

An algorithm is a set of rules. In the algorithms, these rules are mention step by step. With the help of algorithms machine able to know, what is the next possible move I can take to solve the problems?

If you want to start a career in machine learning then you should know about these 10 common algorithms for machine learning.

Linear Regression

Logistic Regression

Support vector machine (SVM)

Random Forest

Decision Trees

K-Means

Gradient Descent

Naive Bayes

Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms

K-Nearest Neighbors(KNN)

Machine Learning Engineer Skills set

Programming Languages: Python and R are two leading Language for machine learning. Both are good languages, you can choose any based on your preference.

Maths: Mathematics plays an essential role in ML Engineer. You must have to cover these topics before starting the journey of Machine learning.

Tips: I will personly recommend you to go for Python, based on my research. Python is the most used language for machine learning by professionals. That means, if you got stuck in any problem then chances of getting your solution is more.

Quality assurance and testing of analytical routines and data frameworks.

Note: To pursue this career, the minimum qualification is bachelor’s degree. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Maths have some advantages over other candidates.

Cheat Sheets Uses by ML Engineer

Cheat Sheet is a supportive guide for the Machine Learning Engineers because it is not possible to carry all the heavy and thick books all the time.

The cheat sheet is in soft documentation format and contains very few pages. So its make easy to find the solution as compared to books.

Machine Learning/Data Science is a very big field and it is growing fast. It is obvious, that we cannot remember all the algorithms, tools, formula and functions. That is the reason, we need a cheat sheet.

Books to start machine learning career path

These following books would be a great help to start your machine learning journey and strong machine learning skills.

R Machine Learning By Example by Raghav Bali, Dipanjan Sarkar

This book provides information about mining the data from state-of-the-art techniques to make data-driven decisions. Case study based approach helps you to understand how to use machine learning in various areas. You will learn the basics of machine learning to the advanced concept.

Machine Learning with R written by Brett Lantz

This book helps you understand the application of Machine-Learning methods using R. It enables you to get an insight into the real world applications through its elaborate examples and illustrations. Most of the algorithms in this book are explained in the simplest and easy-to-understand way.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop

If you want to learn machine learning to its depth then this book is a good choice for you. It uses graphical models to describe probability distributions. It gives you a purely mathematical perspective of looking at ML.

Note: This book is not for the beginner, I would refer you to go to other books to start your career in Machine Learning.

Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python Book by Joel Grus

In this book, you will find out the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms. Implement models such as Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbors, linear and logistic regression, neural networks, clustering and decision trees. You will also learn the basics of linear algebra, statistics and probability theory.

You can also read these free eBooks to know more about the ML

Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David. Cambridge University Press

This book helps you to provide a comprehensive theoretical account of the basic ideas of machine learning and the mathematical derivations that transform these principles into the actual algorithms.

Think Stats gives information about Probability and Statistics for Python programmers. In this book, you will find real datasets, which is helpful to understand the real-time industries problems.

Download from here http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats

I hope this article was a great value-add to your knowledge. And gives you proper guidance to start machine learning career. If you have any doubt related to this career option you can personally contact me.

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